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Forgive

Sue Hill

Forgiveness is such a powerful action. I call it an action, because it takes conscious effort to go through the process of forgiveness. It doesn't just happen by itself, and it is actually an attribute to which we should all aspire. The result of an unforgiving spirit is bitterness. And bitterness...

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An Unusual Ticket to the Movies

Millard Don Carriker

In the 1930’s, Central Oklahoma would have made any film director looking for an “On Location” site for a movie depicting the seven plagues of Ancient Egypt drool with desire. Most of Oklahoma, after enduring the destruction of the Dust Bowl, foreclosures on family farms and double-digit unemployment had one...

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On either or both sides, what kind of work did your grandparents do?

Diane Mason Gray

I was indeed fortunate to know both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother. My paternal grandfather, Stephen Harry "Dick" Mason, died many years before my birth, so I only know what I have been told and what information I located doing genealogical research in the Prairie County, Arkansas, Courthouse in...

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If I Could go Back and Talk to Ancestor Who Would it Be and What Would I Ask...

Suzanna Rawlins

Really - only ONE ancestor?? Come on - you have to know me better than THAT!! Me who is working on a book about time travel and going back to watch my ancestors and maybe interact with them.... (still working on plot and story line). So I cannot limit it to...

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To Forgive or Be Forgiven?

Millard Don Carriker

Forgive? I have much more to be forgiven for than to forgive. The years between 1950 and 1979 are filled with things I did to hurt other people. It wasn’t deliberate or malicious but that doesn’t excuse the fact that I did hurt people, sometimes severely. I either didn’t know or...

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FORGIVE...7 simple letters but a tough word for sure

Suzanna Rawlins

To FORGIVE.... that is tough... Different from forgetting... I have had to learn that to forgive someone of something doesn't mean you have to forget they did it. And that is a HUGE difference as well as a HUGE gap to cross... A tough lesson to learn and actually follow. I...

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Never Too Old - Rarely Too Young

Millard Don Carriker

Life is made up of achievement, failure, frustration, fulfillment, ecstasy and agony: and in my 79 years I have both sampled and sometimes dwelled too long in every one of them. That is as it should be. I would find it impossible to say which among the thousands of joyful moments,...

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A Christmas Memory

Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

The Spirit of Christmas is the Spirit of Christ. As my son, Golden, was reading a story from Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it triggered a memory in my mind that had been long forgotten. On Christmas...

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Forgiveness and Bicycles

Golden V. Adams Jr.

In my growing up and college years, I had a bad temper. However, over the years I have learned to control it, as well as come to the knowledge that if I was offended, I was the only one to blame. No one could make me angry nor offend me without...

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The Summer that Lasted a Lifetime

Millard Don Carriker

There are some things we did in our lives that we may wish we had done differently, but there is a good probability that if we got a second chance we would not do them differently. Why? Because the motivation to do what we did the first time is firmly grounded...

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OH BOY ; OH BOY ; OH BOY

Charles William Spratt

Oh Boy ; Oh Boy ; Oh Boy Week 2 of the December Legacy Story Prompt is a doozey : Describe an egregious act that is still too difficult to forgive or that you have since forgiven. As a Christian I know that I am supposed to forgive those that trespass...

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December Story Prompt- Week 3

Legacy Blog

Topic "Wisdom and Opinions" Our world is changing faster than civilization is able to keep up. These changes are sometimes for good and others not so. Sharing each others' insights can open our eyes to things we may not be aware of. On the flip side we can have that same...

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Court Reporters: Please read this first

Diane Mason Gray Court Record Mgr for CLCT

Did you ever return from a job and say to yourself, I ought to write a book, but it's just too overwhelming, and who's got the time? Here's a free place to chronicle those unusual days and odd occurrences in snippets before you forget about them. I've already written a couple,...

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Reporting School Discoveries

Diane Mason Gray Court Record Mgr for CLCT

In reply to the question to write about one's greatest achievement in my life, I wrote the following: Since only one in ten students graduate from stenotype school, I would have to say that this has been my greatest achievement. The fall after graduating from Frank W. Cox High School in 1970, I...

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If I Could live it over. . . .

Golden V. Adams Jr.

Prompt: If you could go back and relive any part of your life what would you do differently and why? Over the many years since I was a child, I have had many experiences that have been a result of some of the mistakes I made as a youth. Would I...

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If I Could Go Back and Do Something Differently.....

Rachel Johnson

The most important thing I have ever done, I did when I was still quite young myself. I was a married girl of 20 when I became a mother. I was separated from my husband at 21 and divorced at 22. I then became a single parent. Though I did the...

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20/20 Vision

Sandy Jones

This months' story prompt is: "If you could go back and relive any part of your life what would you do differently and why? I've heard people say "I wouldn't do ANYTHING different, because it made me who I am". NOTHING? Really? Sure we learn from our mistakes and foolish behaviors,...

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What I Could Change In My Life

Charles William Spratt

The November Story Prompt is a tuff one . If you could go back in your life and change something what would you change. I read my cousin Millard Don Carriker’s story and I pretty much agree with him. Where would I be now if I changed anything. If I would...

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Cannibal Kings and Gasoline

Millard Don Carriker

During the darker days of “The War” (to the “elders” of today’s society that always means “WWII.”) gasoline was stringently rationed. Drivers were issued “A,” “B,” or “C” decals to put onto their windshields and a rationing book filled with coupons that could be redeemed only on a week by week...

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If I could go back and change something.....

JUSTIN ERIK CORMIER

I wish I studied harder in school! My folks were not pushy in the "gotta get ultra educated" department when my brother and I were groing up. Both of them came from blue-collar working-man families and they really didn't understand what it was like to be college educated and how that...

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